[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit
From: |
Ingo Lohmar |
Subject: |
Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit |
Date: |
Wed, 05 Jul 2017 20:37:38 +0200 |
I agree with the consensus in this thread, and on reading Richard's mail
this morning, several thoughts along the same lines crossed my mind.
Please let's not undermine a successful *free software* project (by the
strictest FSF definition) by trying to duplicate (presumably badly) the
work, passion, clear vision and eye for quality that Jonas has shown.
Also, from a practical point of view --- why would anybody in his/her
right mind contribute to such a project, instead of contributing to
Magit? There are no ethical incentives, and any technical curiosity
has to face the *huge* amount of work and refinement that has already
happened in Magit.
Since getting copyright assignments for Magit contributions seems a
rather daunting task (given the longevity and the size of the project),
we could try to encourage technical steps to integrate parts of Magit
into GNU ELPA and/or Emacs. Jonas has extracted several auxiliary
packages that might qualify, for example because they have been newly
written, rewritten, or have all necessary copyright assignments. A
rewrite of magit's core using libgit2 (maybe as an Emacs module) is also
on the map --- maybe this could be done in such a way that it could
become part of Emacs?
- Re: In defense of VC [was: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit], (continued)
- Re: In defense of VC [was: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit], Richard Stallman, 2017/07/11
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/10
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Marcin Borkowski, 2017/07/10
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/10
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Marcin Borkowski, 2017/07/11
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Phillip Lord, 2017/07/06
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/10
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Phillip Lord, 2017/07/10
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/11
Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Stefan Monnier, 2017/07/05
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit,
Ingo Lohmar <=
Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit (was: comparing code on different branches), Noam Postavsky, 2017/07/05
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit (was: comparing code on different branches), Paul Michael Reilly, 2017/07/06
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Toon Claes, 2017/07/06
- Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit, Mike Gerwitz, 2017/07/06
- Trying out GitLab (was Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit), Nicolas Petton, 2017/07/07
- Re: Trying out GitLab (was Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit), Tino Calancha, 2017/07/07
- Re: Trying out GitLab (was Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit), Nicolas Petton, 2017/07/07
- Re: Trying out GitLab (was Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit), Ted Zlatanov, 2017/07/07
- Re: Trying out GitLab (was Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit), Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, 2017/07/08
- Re: Trying out GitLab (was Re: In support of Jonas Bernoulli's Magit), Dmitry Gutov, 2017/07/08